Idea posted: January 2019

Institutions: Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University    Dresden University of Technology   

In the business literature, diversity is often painted as a magic elixir that brings different perceptions and knowledge to a team or an organization, which then effortlessly leads to greater…

Idea posted: January 2019

Institutions: Warwick University Business School   

Innovation can flourish in specific sections or units of an organization or system, but then fail to diffuse more widely. Two University of Warwick professors, Graeme Currie and Dimitrios Spyridonidis,…

Idea posted: January 2019

Institutions: RocheMartin Institute    Australian Catholic University    Dublin Institute of Technology   

Although the concept of emotional intelligence (EI) is widely accepted, there is no single accepted way to define EI and measure it in people. One recent metric that has emerged…

Idea posted: December 2018

Institutions: École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)    University of Colorado Boulder Leeds School of Business   

How does competitive pressure impact innovation? To answer this question, two researchers, Kenneth Younge of the E?cole polytechnique fe?de?rale de Lausanne (EPFL) and Tony Tong of the University of Colorado…

Idea posted: December 2018

Institutions: Kellogg School of Management    University of the Sciences   

The self-concept refers to how people think of themselves. I am a good person, I am a good listener, I am impatient — these are the kinds of ideas and…

Idea posted: December 2018

Institutions: King's College London    Freie Universität Berlin   

Can organizations of vastly different sizes collaborate effectively? An intriguing case study based on 25 interviews with the actors involved offers a sobering answer: perhaps, but it will be a…

Idea posted: December 2018

Institutions: Cornell University    Harvard University    Essex University    Yale University   

Conversations with new people are an important part of most people’s social and professional lives. After such conversations, people often seem to underestimate whether the other person in the conversation…

Idea posted: December 2018

Institutions: York University Schulich School of Business   

Blockchain technology is a decentralized database tracking a transaction as it moves from its source to the destination (third parties add a data ‘block’ of information to the chain with…

Idea posted: December 2018

Institutions: Quinnipiac University Lender School of Business    University of New South Wales Business School   

To sell innovative products in emerging markets, companies from developed countries must take into account two fundamental facts about emerging markets. The first is that the growing middle class in…